REAL CONTRIBUTION OF AUTONOMOUS FACTORS OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN INDIA

Abstract

Women’s autonomy is instrumentally important for achieving positive development outcomes and well-being of life which lies in the doing and being what one value and have reason to value i.e. agency. National Family and Health Survey-3, 2005-06 of India found that only 11 to 13 percent of women directly empowered while nearly 80 percent of women indirectly empowered in India and the rest of all are fully dependent upon spouses or other family members to take partially decision to control their life. This study tries to examine various conceptions of these ideas to clearly mark the overlapping zones and distinguishing features of respective concepts of women’s autonomy in India. These variables are use as an autonomous factor of women’s empowerment in India. By using Binary Logistic Regression analysis study investigates to correlates of empowerment based on the socio-economic and demographic characteristics like residence, religion, caste, current age, age of marriage and number of living children. Findings of the study shows that the female living in urban areas has more freedom of movement and control over resources and decision making power as compared to women those living in rural areas. Demographic characteristic such as age of women, age at marriage and number of living children are positively associated with women’s autonomy. The social characteristics like religion and caste are importance factors, So late marriage of women and less number of children can be play a role to make women more empowered. Overall this study can be helpful for policy maker and demographer to understand main factors of women’s